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Figure 2
Proportion of workers using public transit to get to work, selected metropolitan areas, 2006

Sources: American Community Survey, 2006; and Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006.

Description

This figure shows that the proportion of workers using public transit to get to work is higher in the census metropolitan
areas of Toronto (22.2%), Montréal (21.4%) and Vancouver (16.5%) than in many metropolitan areas of the United States of
America. The public transit usage is shown for the metropolitan regions of Boston-Cambridge-Quincy (11.7%),
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet (11.4%), Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (1.7%), Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington (9.1%),
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana (6.4%), San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont (14.4%). The only exception, with a usage
percentage higher than the Canadian census metropolitan areas, is New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, with 31.0%.

Sources: American Community Survey, 2006; and Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006.